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Am I missing something, or was the authors lack of free time due entirely to the fact that he was commuting 4 hours, and not at all related to working at a startup like the title suggests?

I think something with much more whitespace and less stripes and unnecessary colors would be much easier on the eyes.

The functionality is definitely better, but I would have to agree, the design needs some serious help. It has become pretty clear lately that people don't like using ugly websites, even if they work better than their pretty counterparts...

I listen to headphones almost the entire day, but when I want to have a conversation with someone, I sure as hell don't want to have to go to some meeting room to have it. It just seems like asking your employees not to communicate...

It would be really embarrassing if they didn't revert. I'm in.

Age based cultural separations aside, I think a lot of people, have a really hard time grasping that experience isn't directly related with skill. There are tons of 'veteran programmers' who are worse than the majority of 20 year olds in the valley.

This interface looks really good, but as previously stated, there are a lot of behind the scenes features (security, spam filter and keyboard shortcuts) that keep me with gmail.

As much as I would love to stop even pretending to care about dealing with blackberry's brutal web browser, I still think that this title is way to bold and extremely unlikely...

I don't understand why people get so worked up about this. I personally one space, but I feel like the difference between the two is so minute that it shouldn't really matter...

This article seems way off in so many different aspects, especially the example where they keep the sidebar beside the text on the mobile version and say it is better.

I understand the point of view that responsive isn't the answer to everything, but saying that dekstop versions of sites 'work' couldn't be more wrong in terms of just about everything.

I agree that if someone could improve email management they would indeed make more money. However, I still feel that sparrow was able to become so popular because it's iPhone interface was so much nicer to use than both Google's and Apple's free alternatives.

zsh with oh-my-zsh. It has all the features I need, easy to install and update and an active community. Check out the github repo https://github.com/sorin-ionescu/oh-my-zsh

From your post "Update 17 Jan 2012: Of the top 100 sites most visited on the internet, 71 of them have content specifically designed for mobile devices." -- I feel like websites with extremely large budgets (top 100) would currently be best served by mobile specific sites because they don't have to worry as much about the costs of updating/testing multiple different sites that most others do.

That being said, as the number of different mobiles devices quickly rises it will soon become near impossible to maintain a mobile site specific to every device.